Friday, 13 December 2013

Hypocritical MP's Rule.

This from Truth-Out: [Greg Palast]

“I can't take it anymore. All week, I've watched Nelson Mandela reduced
to a Barbie doll. From Fox News to the Bush family, the politicians and media
mavens who body-blocked the anti-Apartheid Movement and were happy to keep
Mandela behind bars, now get to dress his image up in any silly outfit they
choose”.

Nelson Mandela.

Now Truth-Out was
talking about the US, but we here in New Zealand via our government was even
more hypocritical, in fact the sickening words of Don McKinnon and Jim Bolger
were disgustingly and plainly hypocritical and false and the childlike
behaviour of ‘I want to be liked’ John Key was so puppet like that it was truly
embarrassingly demeaning to Nelson Mandela and our own anti-Apartheid movement.
Our anti-Apartheid movement had guts and a sense of justice as they grew from a
few hundred into many hundreds of thousands. Whereas Bolger and McKinnon along
with Muldoon supported South African Apartheid in very practical terms…they
were gutless and spineless. Truth-out went on to say:

Poor Nelson Mandela; When he's not a doll, he's a statue. He joins
Martin Luther King as another bronzed monument whose use is to tell us that
apartheid is now "defeated" - to quote the ridiculous headline in the
Times.

It's more nauseating than hypocrisy and ignorance. The Mandela Barbie
is dressed to serve a new version of racism, Apartheid 2.0, worsening both in South Africa - and in the USA.

The ruling class creates commemorative dolls and statues of
revolutionary leaders as a way to tell us their cause is won, so go home. For
example, just months ago, the US Supreme Court overturned the Voting Rights
Act, Dr. King's greatest accomplishment, on the specious claim that,
"Blatantly discriminatory evasions are rare," and Jim Crow voting
practices are now "eradicated."

Here in New Zealand South African style Apartheid still
exists in the various right-wing political movements that abounded, while small
in number they have corrosive fingers deeply embedded in the National Party and
via Winston PetersNew Zealand First,
remember he too supported Muldoon, McKinnon and Bolger in treating Nelson
Mandela. Other strange groupings such as ‘The One NZ Foundation’, the almost
defunct ACT party, the ‘One Law for all’

While I believe strongly that NZ shouldn’t move to ban such
movements because racists need an outlet to expose their anger publicly so that
their twisted version of history can be countered. Racism in various countries
around the world often has covert support from National Governments and state
governments, the US and Australia
standout amongst our so-called allies for this practice. Truth-Out went on:

The ruling class creates commemorative dolls and statues of
revolutionary leaders as a way to tell us their cause is won, so go home. For
example, just months ago, the US Supreme Court overturned the Voting Rights
Act, Dr. King's greatest accomplishment, on the specious claim that,
"Blatantly discriminatory evasions are rare," and Jim Crow voting
practices are now "eradicated."

"Eradicated?" On what planet? The latest move by Florida Republicans to purge 181,000 voters of color -
like the stench from the shantytowns of Cape
Town - makes clear that neither Jim Crow nor Apartheid
has been defeated. They're just in temporary retreat.

Nevertheless, our betters in the USA
and Europe have declared that King slew
segregation, Mandela defeated apartheid; and therefore, the new victims of
racial injustice should just shut the f$#! Up and stop whining.

I don’t believe that the desire for government supported
Apartheid wouldbe supported by a
majority here in NZ and that the majority supports the view that the Treaty of
Waitangi is a conciliation approach designed by us and is in fact I believe
modeled on the same principles of Nelson Mandela's reconciliation pathway.